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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: kdebase/ksplash
From:       Lubos Lunak <l.lunak () sh ! cvut ! cz>
Date:       2002-03-11 14:17:14
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On Mon 11. March 2002 13:32, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Mär 2002, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> >  What makes the pixmaps so special that the X server doesn't free them on
> > client exit? (Not that I'm saying that freeing them explicitly is bad.)
>
> The server doesn't know which client the pixmaps are associated with, so
> they're not auto-freed upon client-disconnect.

 Of course the server knows, and frees the resources on client exit (man 
XCloseDisplay). At least it should ... I just managed to reproduce a way how 
to make my X eat all my RAM just by creating and freeing pixmaps.

-- 
 Lubos Lunak
 llunak@suse.cz ; l.lunak@kde.org
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